Lions ship eyeglasses to Feed the Children organization

By Lion Dave Conley

Posted:
03/09/2017 07:03:36 AM MST

Northeastern Junior College baseball players recently helped load a shipment of used eyeglasses from the Sterling Lions Club onto a trailer go to the Feed the Children organization in Oklahoma City. Approximately 49,680 pair of used eyeglasses were shipped. (Courtesy Photo)

Sterling Lions Club recently sent a shipment of 49,680 pair of used eyeglasses to the Feed the Children organization in Oklahoma City, Okla.

This shipment consisted of 207 boxes of various prescription types and strengths of used eyeglasses. Each box contained 240 pair of eyeglasses.

Since the elevator is not working where we sort and store eyeglasses, we enlisted the help of 12 Northeastern Junior College baseball players and their coach, who furnished a pickup and trailer. With the help of seven Lions Club members who taped and moved the boxes to the head of the stairs, the NJC players formed a brigade of hands to transfer the boxes down 28 steps and onto the trailer. Within an hour we were on our way to Mead Lumber Co. to build pallets and wrap them for shipping.

Our thanks go to Coach Bryan Shepherd and his willing and helpful group of baseball players. We would also like to thank Mead Lumber Co. for furnishing the pallets and a place to store them until the Feed the Children truck came to pick up the eyeglasses. I would also like to thank the Sterling Lions Club Used Eyeglasses Committee that works diligently every Tuesday afternoon to sort and box the eyeglasses, as well as Logan Industries of Sterling and the Sterling Correctional Facility.

The shipment puts the total of used eyeglasses shipped by the Colorado Used Eyeglasses program at close to 880,000 pair since the inception of the program in 2001.

Dave Conley is the chairman of the Sterling Lions Used Eyeglasses Program.

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